Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-01-01
YUBA COUNTY.
Rich in Soil, Climate and Productions
Her Varied Resources.

Rich in Soil, Climate ana RrOductions-
Her Varied Resources.
Yuba is a paratiyely small county,
and lies on the eastern side of the Sacra-
nento valley, reaching from. Feather river
northeastward to the foo; of the high Sierra.
Its extreme western part, bounded on the
south by Bear river, is intersected by Yuba
river, and is largely included in the great
Sacramento valley. Tbe country embraced
in the angles formed by the junction of
these two streams with Feather river, the
western boundary. is very level, and is in
terseeted with small streams or sloughs
The great valley extends about ten
miles east of Marysgille, and southeast to
the corner of the county. The surface is
| quite level and treeless, with soil well
adapted to the culture of small grain, and
is the chief farming portion of the county.
| The foothills region, which reaches from
the valley eastward nearly, if not quite, to
the county limit, is at first rolling, but be-
comes more and more billy, brushy and
rocky as the Sierra mountains are ap
preached. Small valleys occur among the
hills, but the lands are as yet but little un-
| der cultivation.
THE SOILS OF THE FOOTHILLS
| Are red and pebbly clays, and in the lower
portions are well adapted to fruit trees and
vineyards. This toothill section was once
the home of many thousand miners, but
| is now being settled and cultivated by the
horticulturist, who finds the soil well suited
to variety of crops The Feather river is
a navigable stream as high as the city of
Marysville. Like other portions of the
! Sacramento valley, Yuba is blessed with
! climate that may, without eXaggeraton, be
| called " glorious" While the midsummer
| heat is often quite ardent at midday for
brief spells, the nights are always com
| fortably and delightfully."- cool and refresh
| ing Flowers bloom every month in the
year, while in the same latitude on the
eastern side of the continent the winters
are excessively cool and the summers fire.
quently unbearably hot Statistics running
back for upwards of thirty years show
| THE MEAN ANNUAL TEMPERATURE
Fer Yuba county to be 600. For the spring
months it is 80 50, for summer 7l.S0, for
autumn 81 60, and for winter 1929. This
average of temperature is not excelled in
any other portion of our country. High
| winds and hurricanes are unknown in this
| section, as is indeed the case throughout
| California The advantages of climate
of this character over that OF sections
| where the winters are of five or six months
duration can hardly be estimated from an
economic standpoint, and are appreciated
only by those who have experienced both.
Here live stock require no particular care
IL winter and the saving in the one item
of fuel alone is an important consideration
to families. Outdoor labor is scarcely in
! terrupted throughout the entire year,
which means great deal to the class who
depend on their labor alone for their liveli-
hood, Who can say that life is not incom-
| parably easier and more replete with COM
fort and happiness, under the sunny skies
of the Sacramento Valley, and its adjacent
foothills, than in those parts of the East
and North. where people are virtually
housed up for nearly one-half of the year,
and catching up" the other half. The
average annual rainfall for Yuba county is
1880 inches.
NATURAL AND OTHER PRODUCTS
The eastern portion of the county is
| quite heavily timbered with spruce, fir and
pine. The valley portion is generally dot
ted with oaks, while the water-courses are
bordered with sycamore and variety of
trees of smaller growth. Lumber and fuel
are consequently both abundant and cheap.
The products of the soil embrace all the
usual semi-tropical fruits, grains, etc. APP
pies, peaches, pears, plums, apricots, cher
|
of fruit are successfully grown in all parts
of the county, as well as the smaller fruits
and berries. The orange, lemon, olive, fig
and almond are grown without special care
or effort, while wine, table and raisin grapes
of the choicest varieties yield abundantly
| As high as SIS to $500 per acre profit has
often been realized from vineyards of mus
cat, museatel and other choice varieties in
a single year. With all these advantages
and inducements for settlers to locate and
engage in fruit culture, scarcely more than
| one eighth of the land in the county has
been brought under cultivation.
Considerable attention is paid to stock
raising in this county, which is attended
,, with large degree of profit.
THE PRINCIPAL TOWNS
In Yuba county are MarysviIle, Wheatland,
Camptonville and Smartsville. The former,
the county seat, has a population of about
5000 and supports two excellent daily
papers, the appeal and Democrat. The
Graphic, well-conducted and good paper,
is published in Wheatland.